Group Business Resilience & Innovation Manager

About the role

We’re looking for a forward‑thinking Group Business Resilience & Innovation Manager to strengthen how Balfour Beatty anticipates, responds to and adapts in a changing environment. In this role, you’ll embed resilience and innovation into business planning and operational decision‑making, ensuring we remain agile, prepared and future‑ready.

Working closely with senior leaders and teams across the business, you’ll help translate ideas into practical solutions, from strengthening resilience frameworks to advancing innovation initiatives. This is a key role where you’ll drive continuous improvement, enhance performance and support long‑term growth.

The location for this role is UK flexible, with a mix of office-based and home working in line with our flexible working policies.

What you'll be doing

Lead the ongoing development and enhancement of the Business Resilience Framework to ensure it remains practical and aligned to business priorities

Support the delivery and evolution of the Innovation Framework, embedding innovation across the organisation

Integrate resilience thinking into transformation, innovation and continuous improvement initiatives

Coordinate business continuity, incident response and crisis management planning across business units

Plan and deliver resilience testing, exercises and assurance activities, driving meaningful improvements from insights

Identify emerging risks, trends and opportunities, providing actionable recommendations to strengthen preparedness

Build strong relationships across functions to identify vulnerabilities and enable innovation-led improvements

Monitor performance, maintain reporting and provide clear insights to leadership and governance forums

Enable a culture of resilience and innovation through training, engagement and knowledge sharing

Support the identification and deployment of innovative solutions to improve efficiency, performance and resilience

Who we're looking for

Experience in business resilience, innovation, transformation or continuous improvement

Strong understanding of business continuity, incident management and resilience principles

Proven ability to develop and improve frameworks, processes or governance structures

Excellent stakeholder management and relationship‑building skills

Strong planning, organisation and project coordination capability

Ability to identify and implement practical improvement and innovation opportunities

Confident communicator with strong influencing and facilitation skills

Analytical mindset with experience producing reporting and performance insights

Experience supporting transformation or change initiatives

Proactive, self‑motivated and driven to deliver outcomes and identify opportunities

Why work for us

Day in, day out, our teams deliver some of the UK’s most ambitious, exciting and meaningful projects; developing, building and maintaining the vital infrastructure that supports national economies and strengthens communities.

Why join us?

As if contributing to and supporting work that makes life better for millions wasn’t rewarding enough, we offer a full range of benefits too. You’ll have the freedom to shape the package that’s right for you and your life. Here are some of our key benefits:

Smart working, giving you more flexibility such as staggered start and finish times, with up to 40% remote working, where roles allow.

25 days paid annual leave (pro rata)

Family friendly policies which include 28 weeks full pay for maternity/adoption leave and four weeks full pay for paternity/partners leave

Pension, share incentive plan, volunteering leave, recognition schemes and much more…

About us

Balfour Beatty Group Enabling Functions are Legal, Finance, IT and Procurement, Communications, Health Safety and Environment, HR and Sustainability. Together, they support delivery of our Build to Last strategy whilst improving efficiencies and standardising our approach, systems and processes.

Diversity and inclusion

At Balfour Beatty we believe that diversity and inclusion are essential components of any successful, happy workplace. Through our Value Everyone Diversity and Inclusion Strategy and Action Plan, we are growing our diverse workforce and developing our inclusive culture where everyone is able to thrive and reach their full potential, regardless of their identity or background. To find out how we are making this a reality, visit www.balfourbeatty.com/diversityandinclusion

To help and support us with our desired commitment to create an inclusive culture we are members of WISE, enei, Business Disability Forum and the Association for Black and Minority Ethnic Engineers (AFBE). In 2020, we signed the Audeliss and Involve Open Letter to demonstrate our commitment to taking key long term and sustainable actions on Black Inclusion. Balfour Beatty is also a Gold Award holder in the Ministry of Defence 'Employer Recognition Scheme' and actively encourage applications from Armed Forces personnel, veterans and reservists.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we are committed to working with people who have disabilities and long-term health conditions to remove barriers for them in obtaining employment. We are also committed to offering applicants with a disability an interview if they meet the minimum requirements for the role. For more info, visit: https://disabilityconfident.campaign.gov.uk/

We are looking to continually improve our resourcing process and ensure that it is fair and inclusive for all. If you have any feedback on the process, please share this with us at: candidaterecruitmentqueries@balfourbeatty.com

Job Reference: BBUK19789